Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Auto-connecting your VPN on public Wi-Fi adds privacy and peace of mind without relying on your memory or manual toggles. However, even if you want that extra layer of protection, actually remembering ...

My local cafe is very friendly to laptops, providing an outlet at every seat and fast Wi-Fi, with the password prominently displayed for anyone to see. (The coffee's great, too.) When I log on from my ...